Thank
you to everyone who is still reading this fic up to this point! I
really figured I lost most of you when I killed Syd, and that I may
have lost the rest of you when I killed Jack! But if that didn't
make you want to quit reading well then this just may!
Muahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Oh and thanx to NDY who helped me
with his twisted ideas! (evil glint in eye)

Disclaimer:
The other day I opened up a box of cereal and the prize inside said
that I had won the rights to the Power Rangers! It turned out the
contest had ended three years ago. Stupid discount stores and their
outdated merchandise!

Z had finally ditched the
heels and now ran barefoot and full speed with Bridge down to the
simulator room.

"Are you sure this is
the way?" she asked.

Bridge ran with his bare
hand out in front of him following the trail of his best friend. No
one could ever quite understand just why him and Sky had bonded so
well. Him being goofy and roundabout, Sky being straight-laced and
straightforward, it proved that opposites attract. Bridge couldn't
really explain it either but it worked and well. Sky was always there
for him helping him to become a better ranger criticizing him in the
way that Bridge knew meant he cared he just hated to say so and
Bridge was always there for him knowing when something was wrong and
always seemingly knowing what to do about it without actually having
to ask and causing Sky to share his feelings (something he had never
been good at).

"I'm positive."
Bridge said confidently, he felt both Sky and the Red Ranger come
this way. "Although since only fools are positive then maybe I'm
certain, but if I was certain, which is only a synonym for positive
then I guess I'd still be a fool." His ramble came to an end.
"We're here."

The pair had come to a
stop in front of one of the simulator room doors. Above the door the
light burned red indicating that there was a simulation in progress.

"He's in there."
Bridge noted solemnly. "And we can't get in." Z glanced over
at the control panel and saw the wires sticking out.

"Is he still…?" she
didn't want to say alive but didn't want to ask if he was dead
either.

"I don't know, I
can't read through the door." Bridge stared at the door
frustrated with himself.

"Well what do you
feel?" She touched his arm tenderly. Bridge closed his eyes and let
his mind reach out to his best friend. Suddenly his eyes shot open.

"Come on!" Without
explanation Bridge grabbed Z by the arm and dragged her into the
control center for the simulator rooms. Inside was an observation
window to each room and the master control panel.

"Bridge what's going
on?" she asked but then she looked down into the one room that was
active and there laying underneath a giant slab of marble was a man
surrounded by a bright blue light that held the marble mere inches
from his face. From the looks of things he had been there for a while
and would probably not be able to keep it up much longer.

"Oh my God SKY!" she
turned to Bridge who was already working on the computer. "Bridge
can't you turn it off?"

"I'm trying." He
grunted. "The safety's been disabled."

"Hold
on, it's just a simulation. I mean it can't really kill
him…right?" There was no answer from Bridge. "Wait one god-damn
minute you mean these things can kill you!" she stared at
him in disbelief. "Who the hell creates a training program that can
KILL YOU!? Oh but it's okay don't worry we'll just put a
safety on it so that it wont! How about you make it so that it can't
to begin with!" Z raved to the room in general.

"Hey Z, I really need
to concentrate." Bridge was now underneath the control panel
digging around inside.

"Sorry." Z stood
there feeling useless again. Bridge's legs were sticking out from
underneath the counter and ever so often she would hear mumbled
curses.

"stupid gloves can't
do anything…Here Z hold these." His leather gloves were suddenly
thrust into her hands. Z laid them carefully on the counter and then
turned to watch Sky inside the illusion.

"Uh Bridge…"

"If you cross the red
with the blue…or was it green?"

"Bridge…"

"Maybe it was purple…

"Bridge you need to
hurry."

"What
the heck is that doing in here?"

"Bridge I don't think
he can hold on much longer."

Bridge poked his head out
from under the control panel and looked down into the room. Sky was
loosing steam. The sweat was pouring from his brow and his eyes were
starting to roll back into his head. Z got on over the intercom.

"Sky its Z! Hold on!
Bridge has got it all figured out okay? We'll get you out of
there." Sky turned to the sound of his friends voice and made his
best attempt to nod in acknowledgment. Turning to look down at Bridge
who had returned to work she asked.

"You
do have it all figured out right…?" Bridge said nothing.

"Shit."

Minutes passed by with
Bridge furiously working underneath the panel and Z watching Sky
intently.

"Z?" Sky's strained
voice broke through silence.

"Yeah Sky what is it?"
Bridge was too distracted on the problem in front of him to hear his
friends. Whoever had messed with this had known exactly what they
were doing, Bridge would be lucky to figure this out in a week much
less the next five minutes.

"I never really hated
you, you know that right? I just hated the fact that you and Jack
came off the streets and were put on the same squad that I had
trained for years to get to."

Somberly the pair made
their way down to their quarters keeping an eye out for anything that
might indicate another attack.

"Whoever this is,"
Bridge speculated, "Has already used the Red, Blue, and Yellow
power. Which means, that if I'm right, we have to be on the lookout
for the Pink and Green."

"Have you been able to
sense anything underneath the Ranger power?" she asked.

"Not really but there's
this…familiarity underneath it all that I just can't quite
place." The feeling had been bothering Bridge the whole time, like
he knew who was doing this he just couldn't seem to move the haze
in order to see who it was.

"Well what we need is
to get back to our rooms. We need to change and get our blasters so
that we at least have something." Bridge agreed. His fake leather
pants were beginning to chafe.

Together they arrived at
the girl's room. After a quick scan to make sure no one but them
was there, the two of them walked in locking the door behind them.
Bridge watched as Z dug through her closet and produced her yellow
SPD uniform and began to change.

"Uh…Bridge turn
around please." She noticed that he was still there staring but not
really at her, more off to the left and far far away. Suddenly he
walked over to the wall and flipped himself upside down.

"Bridge?"

He stood there on his
hands, eyes closed, lips moving in silent deliberation. When his eyes
snapped open, he fluidly moved himself back into the upright position
and turned to her excitedly.

"What was it that Boom
had said back in the commanders study?" he asked, as though he were
the teacher asking a student.

"That our morphers were
stolen?" she looked at him confused as to where this was going.

"Yes! But from where?"
he urged her on.

"From…I don't
remember."

"From our rooms! He
said they were stolen from our rooms!" He looked at her expectantly
waiting for the epiphany. Moments passed while Z worked it out in her
overly taxed brain.

"That means…" she
answered slowly wanting to make sure she got it right. "That
whoever stole our morphers had to come into our rooms…which means
that if they were in here…" Her eyes lit up with understanding,
"You'd be able to see the psychic trail they left and we'd know
who we were up against!"

"YES!" Bridge grabbed
her around the waist hugging her to him and twirling them both around
the room.

"Oh damn…" Z cut
short the celebration.

"What?" Bridge set
her down but did not let go.

"Me and Syd? We didn't
leave them in our room."

"Where did you leave
them…?"

"In your room, we
didn't want Boom snooping around in ours." She swiftly became
distracted by the floor.

Of
course nothing could be that easy.
He thought to himself.

"That's okay, no
problem, I'll just go over there, quick scan, be right back."

"No Bridge. Remember
what you said? We should stick together!" Her eyes shot back up to
his face.

"But I'd rather have
you here where I know the killer isn't then take you with me to
where I know the killer might be." He rationalized.

"You promised you
wouldn't leave me!" Her face filled with anxiety.

"Z, I also promised
that I wouldn't let anything happen to you. I can't keep them
both."

"Yes you can, take me
with you! I'm not helpless!" Z's anger was now bubbling to the
surface.

"Z…" he pulled her
closer and cupped her face. "If anything happened to you I couldn't
live with myself and then what? We'd both be dead. So please just
stay here, I'll be right back, I promise." He pleaded with her.

"But you just said that
you couldn't keep all of your prom…" her words were cut short
when his lips came crashing down on hers. Finally. Possessively his
hands gripped her body pressing it firm against his. Her only
response was to loose herself in his taste. At last he pulled away.

"Any
man who wouldn't come back to that would be an idiot." He
said breathlessly. Reluctantly she let him go. Almost to the door
Bridge turned when he heard his name and found his arms suddenly full
of Z. Tangling her fingers in his disheveled hair she yanked him down
to her eager lips and kissed him passionately one last time.

"Don't be an idiot,
okay?" she whispered

"I won't." He
assured, and then walked out the door locking it behind him.

Z wandered over to her
lost roommates side of the room and picked up Peanuts. Hugging the
stuffed elephant to her chest for comfort she then sat on her own bed
and waited for her protector to return.

Bridge walked hesitantly
across the common room keeping his mind alert for anything…off. It
was nearing mid-night and the base was dark except for the glowing
video game screens casting eerie shadows across the room.

Go
in, quick scan, back to Z. Go in, quick scan, back to Z. Go in, quick
scan, back to Z. It was the mantra
that kept him until he got to his door. Immediately he knew there was
something wrong. When he opened the door no less than three inches of
water came pouring out. That's weird I don't think I left
the water on. Bridge walked into his
room water sloshing around his boots with every step. Looking around
the room his eyes began to prick with tears. No more late
night conversations, no more kidding around, no more Sky. Bridge
made a mental note to come back after everything and get the Red
Ranger helmet that belonged to Sky's father. His heart broke a
little more when he realized he would have to hand both that and
Sky's Blue Ranger helmet over to his mother. Bridge was brought
back from his thoughts when he felt something bump into his left
foot. Bending down he found his bath book, a symbol of his innocence
now lost, floating across the sodden floor. As he reached down to
grab it he was pushed the rest of the way from behind and landed face
first in the water.

"You just really are
that gullible, aren't you Bridge?" The menacing voice from behind
him laughed.

Quickly Bridge began to
tug at the wet leather on his hands.

"I don't know what
you think your trying to do…" The Pink Ranger stood above him.
"Going to find out who I am?"

"Dude you're not even
a girl!" Bridge pointed to the wrong bulge in the wrong place in
the pink spandex.

"You're right I'm
not." Bridges cry for help was strangled when the Pink Ranger
picked him up by the collar and forcibly dragged him over to his
nightstand. Struggling with his gloves the whole time Bridge finally
managed to free his right hand. Tossing the soggy leather aside he
grabbed the Pink Rangers arm with his bare fingers. His eyes widened
in horror with the realization of who was behind the helmet.

"But why?" he
stuttered in shock.

"Why? You ask me WHY?"
The decidedly male voice became infuriated. "All I ever wanted was
to be part of the gang! Play light-ball, go to the park for a picnic,
be invited to parties! Just to hang out with the high and mighty
Power Rangers! But NO! Ever since you all made B squad, suddenly you
didn't have time for me! Were all too good for me! Even you Bridge!
When Cruger let those two thieves in off the street suddenly you
didn't care if your new subscription of Extreme Upgrade was in, you
didn't care about having time to connect the waffle iron to the
toaster to the mainframe! You just cared about HER"

"I'm sorry!" Bridge
tried to apologize while his mind raced wildly.

"Me too Bridge. I
didn't really want to have to kill you. But if one goes you all
have to go! After all you guys do everything as a team, right?" The
Pink Ranger grabbed Bridges ungloved hand and shoved it into his
toaster, Maureen.

"Now, knowing you
Bridge, this toaster probably has far more power then any normal
toaster needs. And with all the water on the floor all I have to do
is push down that little black button and well…I'm sure it's
how you would have wanted to go." Before the button was pushed the
Pink Ranger powered down.

"Five rangers down,"
Boom smiled at him psychotically, "One to go…"

"NOOOOOOO!" Bridge
screamed, but there was nothing he could do his hand was firmly stuck
inside Maureen and Boom had already morphed into the Green Ranger.

"Good-bye Bridge."
Pushing down on the little black button the Green Ranger ran from the
room while Bridge met the same fate as every piece of bread he had
ever put into his beloved toaster.

Z sat there clutching
Peanuts when the lights began to flicker and then power down
completely. The room washed over in the orangey tint of the
floodlights and her heart started racing.

"I said don't be an
idiot." She whispered to herself. Coming to the decision that she
had had enough sitting on the sidelines Z got up from her bed,
unlocked the door, and went out into the common room, relocking the
door behind her.

"Bridge?" she
tentatively called out for him.

What she found though was
the Green Ranger standing between her and the door to the boys'
room.

"It's all over Z. I
got him."

Z knew that the helmets
distorted their voices a bit but the Green Ranger before her didn't
even sound remotely like Bridge.

"Who
are you?" She stated looking around the Green Ranger into the boys'
room. Inside she saw a charred body with its hand in Bridges toaster.
That must have been what caused the power outage. Running
towards the room the Green Ranger let her pass but did not allow her
into the room.

"You're lying!" she
screamed again. Looking down she saw Bridges glove floating in the
water with his bath book. Turning she reached down and grabbed the
water logged glove and clutched it to her chest while the tears
streamed down her face.

"What did you do to
him?" she asked again her voice filled with anguish.

"The same thing I'm
going to do to you." The Green Ranger pulled out his delta-max
striker and took aim. Slowly Z rose from her position on the floor
and turned to face the Green Ranger.

"You're the last
one." He said triumphantly before pulling the trigger and blowing a
smoking hole through her chest. Z's lifeless body fell splashing in
the water as Boom powered down.

"Take that Gruumm!"
he crowed. "I have single handedly taken down the Power Rangers!"
Just then he heard a soft whoosh behind him.

"You
forgot Boom, there's more than one of me."

Boom stared at the
specter in front of him and then turned to where he thought it should
be. But instead of Z's dead body all he saw was Bridges glove
floating in the murky water. With a small yelp he turned and ran for
it, multiple Z's on his tail.

The chase led them all
the way to the testing lab, Boom's second home.

"You can't out run us
Boom!" the Z's called out taunting him. Running through the lab
one of the Z's noticed why through everything they hadn't heard
from the perpetual Kat. Her body swung lifeless above the floor
suspended from what looked to be a leash and collar.

"Your sick Boom!" She
bellowed. "And you're fucking dead!"

"Oh yeah?"

A hot beam rushed past
her head and hit one of her replicates between the eyes. Crashing to
the floor she quickly disappeared.

"I think you're the
one who's dead." Boom stood there in the opening to the
experimental armory. Strapped to his waist and arm was an enormous
laser gun, which he was using to randomly take out the army of Z's.

"First you have to find
the real me." Z called out to him in unison. Every time Boom would
take one out, another one would take its place. Z was spreading
herself thin and she knew it, with every one that died she could feel
herself become weaker. She just had to keep him distracted long
enough to get behind him and get into the armory. There was bound to
be something in there she could use. Quietly she slipped through her
own ranks being brought down ruthlessly and bloodlessly.

"That thing's going
to run out of power eventually Boom and then what?" she spread her
words out between multiple replicates to keep him occupied. Every one
that spoke was blasted away.

"I've got other
toys!" He threatened, but Z could see the nervousness on his face.
It was only a matter of time before Boom did something that was…well
Boom. Her opportunity came when the gun on his hip did finally run
out of power. And good thing, he had gone through so many replicates
Z could no longer make anymore and was just barely holding on to the
ones she had left. Clumsily he tried to un-strap the enormous firearm
and in that time the real Z slipped in behind him. Her replicates
continued to come at him. Pulling out a small blaster he was shooting
them at close range when he felt something come up behind him yanking
his hair violently backwards.

"Well Boom I guess this
is it." She spoke quietly and deliberately.

"I'm sorry! I didn't
mean too! I only wanted to be part of the gang!" He began to plead
for his life.

"Sorry's aren't
going to bring my friends back Boom." Bringing her hand into his
field of vision she showed him the device that she had selected from
the armory behind them, held in her leather-clad hand.

"That's one of the
nova grenades." He stuttered.

"I know."

"You'll blow us both
to next Tuesday!"

"I know."

"You're the one who's
crazy!"

"No Boom I'm the one
who's had everything stolen away from her."

"You wont survive! Half
the base will be blown away."

"There are no
dormitories on this half anyway."

"You can't! You
wouldn't!"

"Time
to go BOOM."

Wearing the glove that
had been Bridge's Z released her hold on the grenade and Boom,
smiling as he ran to escape the blast that would engulf them both.

Now
I'm sure that you're all just a little more then pissed at me
right now…and I wouldn't blame you! I JUST KILLED ALL THE POWER
RANGERS! And I had far too much fun doing it. Why? Again I respond:
Not because I don't like the gang at SPD (ok so maybe I was a
little too giddy while killing off Syd) Because I do! You know I do!
I did it because I could…I mean isn't that the whole point of
this website?

So
is that it! Is that how it really ends?! Did I really kill ALL of the
Power Rangers? (evil grin) I guess you'll just have to check back
and make sure wont you? (evil laugh)

HOWEVER…if
you liked my little horror fic I would love to know about it! Just
push that little purple button in the corner and remember that
reviews ARE love! Also I would like to take a little vote…whose
death did you like the most? (because you wouldn't believe how long
it took me to come up with good ways to kill them all and incorporate
their powers!) Okay I'm starting to ramble and I need to stop…so
remember PURPLE BUTTON! Let me feel the love! Or the hate whichever!
(I think I might actually be disappointed if at least one person
doesn't completely flame me.)

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